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Prorogation and Judicial Review
By: Douglas A. Alderson, MA (Toronto), LLM (Yale) When the Governor General prorogued Parliament on January 6th of this year on the advice of the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, she occasioned yet another opportunity for the judiciary to become involved in Parliament’s business. Unlike the Court’s [...]
The Truth is Out There
Author: Douglas A. Alderson, MA (Toronto), LLM (Yale) Tales of abused and missing children naturally tug on the heart strings and engender feelings of outrage and sympathy: outrage at the perpetrators; sympathy for the victims and their families. Our natural sympathies, however, are being manipulated and abused [...]
A Profound Lack of Understanding and Indifference
Author: Douglas A. Alderson, MA, LLM (Yale) At a recent press conference in June of 2024, Chief justice Richard Wagner of Canada’s Supreme Court expressed his concern for the “harm caused when court decisions are reported inaccurately, or out of context, for reasons of “sensationalism.” The Chief [...]
Speech: G K Chesterton Academy Address, June 29, 2024, St George’s Parish
By: Diane Watts, Researcher, REAL Women of Canada Thank you, it’s a privilege to be here. And I congratulate the graduating students and all those who had the wisdom to provide you with a Catholic education. When I asked my colleagues for ideas for this talk, I was [...]
Whither Judeo-Christian Values?
By Douglas Alderson There is much talk these days of “Judeo-Christian values”, those values which underlie Western Civilization and make our political/social order of individual rights and democratic institutions possible. There is no denying that Judeo-Christian values are “biblical values” being derived from the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh—what [...]
Hate Speech vs. Love Talk
The recent introduction of Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, has focused attention on hate and its supposed attempted regulation. While much well-deserved attention and criticism of Bill C-63 has been aimed at the Bill’s draconian censorship mechanisms and bureaucratic empire building, there as yet appears to be [...]